Description: Did you know that before the Smithsonian existed, there were two other institutions created for the promotion of science and diffusion of knowledge? Exploring the fate of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="329" caption="DeCarlo Wiley, National Air and Space Museum guard and Smithsonian basketball team guard, 1978, by Susan Foster, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder April 1978, Negative Number: 94-2879."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Renovation work is underway in the Regents Room in the South Tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB) in 1968, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 31A, Folder 13, Negative Number: OPA 1457-14A."][/caption]
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="Portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878), physicist and first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1846-1878), taken on December 1, 1875. This print contains the portrait of Henry resting on top of a glass case containing a variety of arrowheads, by Fassett,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="416" caption="James Smithson's (c.1765-1829) casket in the Regents' Room, South Tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building or "Castle," before its transfer to the Crypt at the North Entrance, Smithson's remains were brought to the United States by Smithsonian Regent Alexander Graham Bell, 1904, by Unidentified photographer, Black
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="413" caption="Francisco "Chi Chi" Vitola, chief of labor force on for the Canal Zone Biological Area (CZBA), feeds a deer on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal Zone, The CZBA was transferred to the Smithsonian in 1924 and in 1946 was renamed the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, c.1940, by Unidentified photographer,
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